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How the people of Easter Island got here is a mystery. There were a polynesian speaking people that came from the Marquesas. They may have further inhabited the Gambiers to the west as well due to the extraordinary similarity of language. Thor Heyerdahl theorized that these people likely originated in South America. The controversy continues today.
Easter Island
March 12, 2010